Zend Framework News 2006/11/29

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Hi Zend Framework Community,

Zend Framework has been picking up its pace of development recently. Many great improvements are coming soon in areas such as MVC, Acl, Authentication, Session handling, Search engine, and Gdata. There is also some great work in progress for Locale, Date, and others.

We are planning mid-December to produce a new preview release for Zend Framework to include these features. We are calling this preview release 0.6.0. This number is chosen to convey the state of completion of the Zend Framework more accurately. We’re very proud of the progress of Zend Framework, thanks to the contributions of many community members as well as staff at Zend.

We have written a wiki page that describes the features and approximate dates for future releases through 1.0. See http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/zic. We’ll do our best to adhere to this scope and schedule for the project, and that is the way we’ll make a release candidate for Zend Framework 1.0. Our target for this release candidate is the end of March, 2007. If we focus on the tasks needed to complete the Framework, we can achieve this.

At the Zend Conference earlier this month, I was surprised at how few people I talked to knew that Zend Framework is free software, licensed under the terms of the BSD license. So I want to be sure that everyone knows that Zend Framework is a true open-source project, and freely licensed.

Improvements are coming rapidly in Zend Framework, and we are seeking some talented individuals who can help us with some tasks. Right now documentation translation is in need of volunteers, so if you know anyone who can help, point them toward our translator getting started web page (http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/uAY). Languages that need assistance are Spanish, French, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and simplified Chinese.

I’ll continue to provide news about the Zend Framework development regularly.

Regards,
Bill Karwin

Comments

Thursday, November 30, 2006

YAY!

3:48AM PST · Nozavroni

This is so exciting! I have been dying to get my hands on a new Zend Framework release! I can't wait until we have an official stable release of 1.0... Great work guys--I'm really enjoying this framework!

GOOD WORK

11:54PM PST · uplift

Fantastic news! Great work guys, this is definitely going to be THE framework of the future.

Friday, December 1, 2006

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ZEND FRAMEWORK AND PEAR

3:23AM PST · caaguado

Hi Bill,

Could you please explain if Zend Framework is reusing all the nice work
already done across all the PEAR packages?

By the way, congratulations for all the hard work!

Monday, December 4, 2006

BEST THING TO HAPPEN SINCE THE WHEEL WAS INVENTED

9:19AM PST · djhanson

There seems to be a lot of so-called frameworks out there; but none of them have the professional, world-class, support and feel that we have come to know from Zend and PHP.

When I found out that Zend was producing a framework based around PHP, I knew this would be the best thing that has come along (period) in the way of MVC frameworks -- and I could stop pulling my hair out trying to work with some of the other well-known (and surprisingly popular) frameworks.

I predict that this will be the "Framework" that out-does and out-lasts all the rest.

Keep up the good work.

Dennis